A few GW questions...

IrishUboot · 08-17-06, 08:28 PM

The quadrant converter is great. That's a bookmark, indeed. Cheers, Dowly.

harryt8 · 01-18-08, 07:38 PM

SOS is the international distress signal from the Morse Code days. (SOS = Save our Souls). "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" is the current voice equivelent on HF or UHF/VHF equipment.
I think SSS is perhaps an error.
The morse signal transmitted in GWX 2.0 is: CH/28/04/43G.
Is that a random set of charachters or has it some sort of Date/Time/Group as all military signals have?

Harryt8
Merimbula NSW

01-18-08, 07:54 PM

The message "CQD" means a general call to all vessels, which indicates the vessel sending is in distress and requires immediate assistance. At the time of the "Titanic" sinking, the Marconi company's "CQD" was still in common use, although it had been officially replaced by the well known "SOS" - which, by the way, does NOT mean "Save Our Souls" or anything so melodramatic - it was chosen specifically to be easily and instantly recognisable in morse - "dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit".

The Titanic sent an SOS to the Olympic.
(first use of "SOS" by Titanic - Bride jokingly suggests to Phillips that it may be his last chance to use the new distress call)

Abd_von_Mumit · 01-18-08, 10:10 PM

As I learned on this forum, SSS is used specifically as "help, attacked by a submarine". So I assume the middle S (that replaced O) stands for Submarine.

EDIT: Just realised that I took part i a necromancy session.

01-18-08, 10:33 PM

necromancy

That would be me.

But it is a good discussion on several points.
SOS was a fairly new signal at the time of the Titanic Disaster.
CQD was standard from the start of wireless.
Also, They did not transmit in what most presume by todays standards.
It was an almost scratchy blur type transmission.
Do a Google for Titanic's messages and you hear this.
For the AC-4, I did a sound track that HAS a message.
I thought about useing the transmission sounds of the period, but.
As most of the AC-4 is going WAY above everyones heads?
I'm glad I used WWII standars for the sound loop.
Now!!
Decode the message!!!

JScones · 01-18-08, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

As I learned on this forum, SSS is used specifically as "help, attacked by a submarine". So I assume the middle S (that replaced O) stands for Submarine.

Yes, SSS was devised during WWII and used only when the cause of the distress was a submarine torpedoing. Otherwise, the standard SOS was used.

"Save Our Souls" and any other phrase variation is a backronym.

Sniper_Fox · 01-20-08, 03:42 AM

if i was a merch captain, i wouldnt say SSS, id be too afraid of everyone staying clear as to stay away from the sub

08-17-06, 08:28 PM	#1
IrishUboot Sparky Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Malin Head, Eire/Ireland Posts: 156 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	The quadrant converter is great. That's a bookmark, indeed. Cheers, Dowly. __________________ "A braver man than Arthur Griffith, I never met" - Frederick Edwin Smith, The First Earl of Birkenhead, British negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921.

01-18-08, 07:38 PM	#2
harryt8 Bosun Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 64 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Radio Messages SOS is the international distress signal from the Morse Code days. (SOS = Save our Souls). "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday" is the current voice equivelent on HF or UHF/VHF equipment. I think SSS is perhaps an error. The morse signal transmitted in GWX 2.0 is: CH/28/04/43G. Is that a random set of charachters or has it some sort of Date/Time/Group as all military signals have? Harryt8 Merimbula NSW

01-18-08, 10:10 PM	#4
Abd_von_Mumit The Old Man Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Warszawa, Polska Posts: 1,453 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 4	As I learned on this forum, SSS is used specifically as "help, attacked by a submarine". So I assume the middle S (that replaced O) stands for Submarine. EDIT: Just realised that I took part i a necromancy session. __________________ Long, hard, wet and full of seamen. My precious. SH3+GWX+OLC — sunk x4, retired x2; SH5+TDW — still exploring My SH5 mods: EQuaTool - Elite Quality Map Tools, Patrol Routine Scripts, No Logo Intro Menu_Animation, Less Annoying Stopwatch Links: SH5 mods I use, FileFront, Manual plotting how-to

01-20-08, 03:42 AM	#7
Sniper_Fox Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North of Malta, shadowing your pretty little C3 Cargo! Posts: 212 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	if i was a merch captain, i wouldnt say SSS, id be too afraid of everyone staying clear as to stay away from the sub __________________ Im a one U-boat wolfpack. Ive hit the bottom of the Mediterranian at 250 metres in my VIIC and brought that babe back up, and still made it back to La Spezia. Ive sunk more destroyers than I have merchants...youll wish you never sailed into U-87s hunting grounds. When you pull into port, dont lull yourself into a false sense of security, your mines and subnets are just a petty challenge for my crew and I.

01-18-08, 07:54 PM	#3
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The message "CQD" means a general call to all vessels, which indicates the vessel sending is in distress and requires immediate assistance. At the time of the "Titanic" sinking, the Marconi company's "CQD" was still in common use, although it had been officially replaced by the well known "SOS" - which, by the way, does NOT mean "Save Our Souls" or anything so melodramatic - it was chosen specifically to be easily and instantly recognisable in morse - "dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit". The Titanic sent an SOS to the Olympic. (first use of "SOS" by Titanic - Bride jokingly suggests to Phillips that it may be his last chance to use the new distress call)

01-18-08, 10:33 PM	#5
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	necromancy That would be me. But it is a good discussion on several points. SOS was a fairly new signal at the time of the Titanic Disaster. CQD was standard from the start of wireless. Also, They did not transmit in what most presume by todays standards. It was an almost scratchy blur type transmission. Do a Google for Titanic's messages and you hear this. For the AC-4, I did a sound track that HAS a message. I thought about useing the transmission sounds of the period, but. As most of the AC-4 is going WAY above everyones heads? I'm glad I used WWII standars for the sound loop. Now!! Decode the message!!!